Two freight trains collided and derailed...

TRAIN WRECK.

September 8, 1989

HOWARDSVILLE, VA. — TRAIN WRECK. Two freight trains collided and derailed early Thursday, injuring 10 people. None of the injuries appeared serious but some of those hurt were taken to two hospitals, a spokesman for the Albemarle County police said. Three engines and 23 cars jumped the tracks and spilled coal in the collision, which was 60 miles west of Richmond. Lloyd Lewis, a spokesman for CSX Transportation, said the company did not know why the trains were on the same track. The eastbound train was moving along the single-track line and had been cleared to move to a siding when a westbound train came around the curve and hit it, Lewis said. Crew members of both trains were injured.